PC games market data and forecasts across physical retail, digital retail and download, subscriptions, micro-transactions and pay per play monetization by territory. Includes segmentation for multiplayer online games and casual games markets.

The IHS Markit Global Cord-Cutting Tracker identifies the markets in which traditional pay TV is declining, a trend that is in most cases the result of cord-cutting – i.e. customers of traditional pay TV services (cable, satellite, IPTV or pay DTT) cancelling their subscriptions in favour of online video alternatives.

Danish telecommunications provider TDC Group has scrapped its plan to acquire the Nordic broadcasting assets of Sweden’s Modern Times Group, after accepting a takeover proposal from Macquarie and a group of Danish pension funds last month.

US circuit AMC Entertainment has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stockholm-based Nordic Cinema Group (NCG). AMC is to acquire NCG from European private equity firm Bridgepoint and Swedish media group Bonnier Holding in an all-cash transaction valued at SEK 8,250 million ($929 million). The deal is expected to be complete in the first half of 2017 and is conditional upon antitrust clearance by the European Commission.

Swedish media business Modern Times Group (MTG) experienced its best quarterly growth in Nordic premium TV subscribers in six years in Q4 2015, despite the continued decline of its Viasat satellite subscriber base. Premium subscribers totalled 996,000 at the end of 2015, up 24,000 on Q3 2015. This was driven by an increase in the number of subscribers taking premium services via third-party networks, up 37,000 during the quarter, more than compensating for the 14,000 decrease in DTH customers. MTG has not disclosed subscriber figures for its OTT service Viaplay, but it singled it out as the key driver towards 3% growth in total Nordic pay TV net sales, which reached Skr 5,926 million (€633 million) for the full year.